Lottering dishes prawn
HAVE you ever stopped to admire the beauty of a prawn? Probably not, but comedian Marc Lottering will introduce you.
His new show, #Hashtag Marc Lottering, billed as 75 minutes covering a broad range of topics, including the dangers of the WhatsApp Family Group, is opening at the Auto and General Theatre on the Square on Tuesday, running until September 17. The show is not suitable for children, so there is obviously something very special about prawns.
On Thursday (August 18) comedian, singer, director, presenter (you name it) Nataniël returns to the Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace in his new show Mannequin, telling stories in English and Afrikaans with original songs and songs from the late Sixties and the Eighties.
And, naturally, there will be plenty of sumptuous and surprising costumes – Nataniël’s trademark. The production tells the story of an author who is thinking of writing a book about a reclusive tailor – told by his tailor. This runs until September 25.
At the Joburg Theatre, the Tshwane Dance Company is linking up with two other dance companies to present Impact No 1 and Impact No 2, a season of new works, putting the accent appropriately on women choreographers in Women’s Month.
Impact No 1, with the Tshwane Dance Company and the Cape Dance Company, runs from Thursday (August 18) to Sunday.
In Impact No 2, the company shares the stage with Moving Into Dance Mophatong. The two companies perform their own works, but join for a surprise work at the end. Impact No 2 runs from August 24 to 26.
The rest of the week’s schedule continues the theme of Women’s Month with the Vavasati International Women Festival running at the SA State Theatre until August 27, with a flood of shows, music, dance, workshops, poetry and others.
You can still catch the divas in full song today at the Market Theatre with the Divas of Kofifi, and the Supreme Divas are in full voice at the Joburg Theatre until tomorrow.
There is still a note of opera in Pretoria with Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, presented by the TUT students at the Breytenbach Theatre until tomorrow.
Despite the fast-approaching summer, The Teatro at Montecasino is encased in snow with Slava’s Snow Show. Alas this delightful and unusual show finishes tomorrow. Love and relationships are the theme at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre with the international hit musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change with four talented South African performers. In the Studio the Afrikaans musical Altyd in Jou Drome is in its last week.
At the Market Theatre, Dying Screams of the Moon is on until Sunday (August 21) and Tau examines the taboo subject of homosexuality in the Sesotho culture, also until next Sunday.
International pianist Alessandro Taverna is playing a romantic concert of Chopin and Liszt for the Johannesburg Musical Society tonight at the Linder Auditorium and guitarists James Grace and Jonathan Crossley are presenting a varied programme as part of the 2016 Music Concert Series at the Wits Atrium tomorrow.